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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Arab Muslims Suffer Mentally and Economically

By Alan
Caruba

“For years
there has been a rising tide of Islamic radicalism, starting in the Middle
East, providing a hospitable environment in which terrorism grew naturally,”
wrote former Ambassador John Bolton, in a May edition of The Washington Times.

The
eruption of the Islamic State (ISIS) has demonstrated how swiftly it has been
able to recruit thousands of jihadists to its ranks. The millions it is earning
from selling oil on the black market enables it to provide salaries to those
recruits. And weapons.

“This
radical wave has been spreading throughout northern Africa, into Asia, and now
around the world,” warned Bolton.

There is a
reason why there is such a supply of recruits to the self-proclaimed caliphate
that controls a large swath of northern Syria and Iraq. Jim Clifton, CEO of the
Gallup polling organization, says. “The Middle East has collapsed into a state
of chaos, conflict, and suffering that was unimaginable and unforeseen just
four years ago.”

Clifton
took note of the incident that triggered the “Arab Spring” in which dictators
were deposed in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. “Food vendor Mohammed Bouazis set
himself on fire. Bouazizi didn’t yell ‘Death to America’ or ‘U.S. out of Iraq’
or ‘Allahu Akbar.’He cried out, ‘I just
want to work!’”

No Customers

Clifton
said, “Here’s an explanation you don’t hear very often that is likely the root
cause of the entire meltdown in the Middle East: no customers.”

He noted
that “When a society fails to create jobs, as in countries throughout the
Middle East, young men get up each morning with zero hope for a great life,
zero hope to get married (you usually can’t marry in Middle Eastern society
without a real job), zero dream of a family, zero dignity, and zero
self-respect.”

“What
millions of young Middle Eastern males wake up to every morning is unimaginable
humiliation, indignation, desperation, and a form of dangerous boredom.”
Clifton noted that “There are over 100 million young people aged 18 to 29 in
the Middle East/North Africa area—meaning there are probably 50 million young
males.”

That is
more than enough to recruit a huge army of holy warriors who find meaning in
their lives by joining ISIS and other groups like Boko Haram in Nigeria. We are
witnessing a war between Sunnis and Shiites, and Clifton warned that “Western
leaders prefer to operate through delusional wishful-thinking policies.”

I received
an account by an unidentified Lockheed employee who cited research by a Danish
psychologist, Nikolai Sennels as published in 2010. The Lockheed employee had
been in Saudi Arabia on three assignments and noted that Saudi pilot trainees
often had “dim memories and had to be constantly reminded of things that were
told to them the day before.” They also had very limited night vision, “even on
the brightest of moonlit nights.”

The larger
problem as noted by Sennels was attributed to 1,400 years of inbreeding, the
Muslim practice of marrying first cousins; it has been in effect for fifty
generations and is based on the teachings of Muhammad, their revered prophet,
and the prohibition on marrying outside of the Muslim faith.

Sennels noted that “The consequences for offspring of consanguineous
marriages are unpleasantly clear: Death, low intelligence or even mental
retardation, handicaps and diseases often leading to a slow and painful death.”

“Other
consequences are: Limited social skills and understanding, limited ability to
manage education and work procedures and painful treatment procedures. The
negative cognitive consequences also influence the executive functions. The
impairment of concentration and emotional control most often leads to
anti-social behavior.”

“The
economic costs and consequences for society of inbreeding,” said Sennels, “are
of course secondary to the reality of human suffering.”

Sennels
concluded that “A lower IQ, together with a religion that denounces critical
thinking, surely makes it harder for many Muslims to have success in our
high-tech knowledge societies.” In the case of the United States, He noted “One
study based on 300,000 Americans shows that the majority of Muslims in the USA
have a lower income, are less education, and have worse jobs than the
population as a whole.”

There
are many ramifications of the inbreeding that Judeo-Christian faiths prohibited
from their inception. It explains in many ways why it is wrong to believe that
Muslims in the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere “think” in the same
fashion as those in the West.

It
permits them to believe that beheading westerners is a way to impose their will
by videotaping this ancient, barbaric practice. It encourages the belief that
all non-Muslims are worthy of death.

The
flow of Muslims from the Middle East and North Africa into Europe has created a
massive problem for its native population. In Great Britain measures are being
taken to crack down on those who go abroad to become jihadists and return.

According
to Wikipedia: ”The Muslim population of the U.S. increased dramatically
in the 20th century, with much of the growth driven by a comparatively high
birth rate and immigrant communities of mainly Arab and South Asian descent.
About 72% of American Muslims are immigrants or "second generation".
In 2005, more people from Islamic countries became legal permanent United
States residents— nearly 96,000 — than in any year in the previous two decades.
In 2009, more than 115,000 Muslims became legal residents of the United States.”
The other element of the American Muslim population is African-Americans who
have been converting to Islam.

Westerners are
perplexed by the rise of fanatical Islam, but the answer comes down to a lack
of entrepreneurism in Middle Eastern and other Muslim nations, combined with
the problems resulting from generations of inbreeding.

About Me

I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.